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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Microsoft Announces Share Repurchase Program |
| Published: July 22, 2006, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Individual Company |
| Along with better-than-forecast Q4 sales and raising forecast, Microsoft is also announcing it will again open its huge warchest to return excessive cash to investors -- the first $20B through a tender offer to be completed by August, and another $20B in ongoing share repurchase in the next five years. MSFT stock price is responding positvely (and |
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| Kyte.tv Casting The TechCrunch Meet-Up |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:43 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Kyte |
| Interactive video startup Kyte.tv will also be broadcasting tonight’s party on one of their interactive TV channels. The channel will be available at kyte.tv/techcrunch and host video and photos from the event. Party goers can stop by the booth to make quick recorded messages or upload pictures and video from their mobile phones to the |
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| The TechCrunch Meet-Up Live: The Next Best Thing To Being There |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:30 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles |
| The TechCrunch Meet-up at August Capital Live, complements of Ustream.tv. The feed should be live from 5:30pm PST and is scheduled to finish around 10pm. Chat is available on Ustream.tv here. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 |
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| How Much Is A Facebook User Worth? At Least $0.30 |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 6:42 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Facebook, Fbexchange, Lookery, Rockyou |
| See GigaOm for more. The company says they’ve booked $200k in revenue after just two weeks live. Lookery Lookery, founded by serial entrepreneur Scott Rafer, is a straight up advertising network targeted solely at Facebook applications. They say they’ll have access to deep demographic data on users and can therefore target ads to |
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| Dear Podtech: I'm Not Your VP Marketing |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 6:01 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Podtech |
| research I did on the company. This is a post that Podtech pleaded with me to write, to counter the massive negative publicity they’ve been getting around the blogosphere. I agreed to write after two phone conversations with Furrier and some independent digging suggested that the whole story was not being told. Much of Furrier and I |
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| iPhone Class Action Lawsuit |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 5:59 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Iphone |
| A Cook County, Illinois resident has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T over the iPhone. Jose Trujillo is claiming that Apple and AT&T misled iPhone buyers by not clearly informing them that the iPhone battery was sealed, and could only be professionally replaced. According to the papers: Unknown to the Plaintiff, and |
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| MediaWhiz Buys Another Ad Startup, AuctionAds |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 5:27 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Auctionads |
| marketing company MediaWhiz has snatched up eBay affiliate marketing service AuctionAds, which launched back in March. The price was not disclosed. AuctionAds is an advertising widget that serves contextually relevant eBay auctions based on tags supplied by the publisher. MediaWhiz had previously purchased another sensibly named |
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| Zazzle Rumor: Big Hedge Fund Investment |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 5:02 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Zazzle |
| Perkins (which led the company’s $16 million Series A round in 2005, is supposedly also particpating in the round. Look for confirmation from the company in the next couple of weeks. The company competes with CafePress and others. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 |
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| Wikia Acquires Distributed Web Crawler Grub |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:51 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Grub, Wikia |
| Wikia has acquired the distributed web crawling engine Grub from Looksmart. Grub utlizes spare computing cycles on users’ computers to index the web, a similar concept to that used by SETI@home in the search for extraterrestrial life. Grub originally started in 2000 and was purchased in 2003 by LookSmart. Grub was shut in 2005 following some |
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| Profile Builder Launches Tonight At TechCrunch Meetup |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 2:22 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Profilebuilder |
| At tonight’s ninth TechCrunch meet-up, identity management service Profile Builder is launching and demoing their product on Profil.es. Profile Builder’s solution tackles the fragmentation of our online identity caused by the increasing number of services vying for our attention. With Profile Builder, you can create one profile to link |
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| Trusted Opinion Adds Netflix Queuing |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 12:55 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Trusted Opinion |
| Social networking startup Trusted Opinion has added Netflix Queuing to their recommendations focused offering. The feature allows Trusted Opinion members to read a review of a movie then instantly add it to their Netflix queue without leaving the page. Although it sounds simple, Netflix does not offer a public API and hence the feature had to be |
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| What's Really Going On With Podtech? |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 7:07 am |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Podtech |
| for a new CEO for the company. Some rumors suggest that this was one of the requirements that Podtech’s venture capitalists put on the new round of capital. Furrier says it was his idea to do this, and that the company is at a stage where it needs a different kind of leader. He’ll stay on as President of the company, he says. |
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| Now We're Not Talking: Telstra Bans Facebook |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 4:12 am |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Facebook |
| largest telecommunications company, has banned its approximately 49,000 employees from using Facebook. As Cameron Reilly at G’Day World puts it, “This would be a retarded move for ANY company, let alone a company that is trying to position itself as a company that gets online.” The move is strange given the growing |
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| Fichey - A Pretty Way To Browse Popular Sites |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 2:24 am |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Fischy |
| Fichey just launched this afternoon. It is a flash based site that, like StumbleUpon, allows you to browse through popular current websites. But it isn’t a bookmarking service - instead it shows sites from a specified date that were popular on Del.icio.us, Digg, Downfly, Reddit and StumbleUpon. The sites are shown as a jpeg and pulled into |
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| HotSwap To Enter $370 billion Used Car Market |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 11:36 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Hotswap |
| used car on HotSwap. The company says they are also in discussions with AutoNation, which has nearly $20 billion a year in revenue. The site hasn’t officially launched yet. There are no credentials stopping people from visiting but much of the functionality hasn’t been finished and there are bugs. The company says they’ll |
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